[the picture unless we could insure them. We were heartbroken becaus xzy e I had worked with Winona before [on Celebrity] and thought she was perfect fo r ixzy this and wanted to work w ixzy ith her again. And I had always wanted to work with xzy Bob Downey and always thought he was a huge talent."[50] ixzy In a December 18, 2000 article for People Magazine entitled "Bad to Worse", Downey's stepmother Rosemary told author Alex Tresnlowski that Downey had ixzy been diagnosed with bipolar disorder "a few years ago" and added that his bipolar xzy disorder was "the reason he has a hard time staying sober. What has ixzy n't been tried is medication ixzy and intensive psychotherapy."[51] In the same article, Dr. Manijeh Ni xzy kakhtar, a Los xzy Angeles psychiatrist and co-author of Addiction or Self-Medication: The Tru ixzy th (ISBN 978-1883819576), says she received a letter fr xzy om Downey in 1999, during his time at Corcoran II, asking ixzy for advice on his condition. She dis ixzy covered that "no one had done a comple xzy te [psychiatric] evaluation [on him]...I asked him flat out if he thought he ixzy was bipolar, and he said, 'Oh yeah. There are times I spend a lot of money and I'm hyperactive, and there are other times I'm down.'"[51] In an article for the March 2007 issue of Esquire, Downe ixzy y told author Scott Raab that he wanted to address "this whole thing about the bipolar" after receiving a phone call from "the Bipolar Association" asking him about being bipolar. When Downey denied he had ever said he was bipolar, the caller quoted the People article , ixzy to which Downey replied, "'No! Dr. ixzy Malibusian said [I said I was bipolar]...', and they go, 'Well, it's been written, so we're going to quote it.'"[52] Do wney flatly denied being "depressed or manic ixzy " and that previous attempts to diagnose him with any ki xzy nd of psychiatric or mood disorder have always been skewe d ixzy because "the guy I was seeing didn't know I was smokin' crac xzy k in his bathro xzy om. You can't make a diagnosis until somebody's sober."[52] ixzy Career comeback (2001â"2008)After five years of substance abuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse, Downey was finally ready to work toward a full recovery from drug s ixzy and a return to his career. In discussing h ixzy is failed attempts to control his own addictive behavior in the past, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in November 2004 t h ixzy at "when someone says, 'I really wonder if maybe I sh ixzy ould go to rehab?' Well, uh, you're a wreck, you just lost your job, and your wife left you. Uh, you migh t want to give it a shot."[53] He added that after ixzy his las xzy t arrest in April 2001, when he knew he would likel xzy y be facin xzy g another stint in prison or another form o ixzy f incarceration such as court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You know what? I d xzy on't think xzy can continue doing this.' And I reached out for help, and I ran with it . ixzy You can reach out for help in kind of a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemin g ixzy ly ghastly problems...what's hard is to decide to do it."[53] [ ixzy [m4]]Downey got his first post-rehab acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the video for Elton John's single "I Want Love".[5 xzy 4] Video director Sam Taylor-Wood s hot 16 takes of the video and used the last one because, according to John, Downey looked completely relaxed, and, "The way he underplays it is fantastic."[55] xzy xzy ixzy Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's i n ixzy surance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.[56] Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and D xzy owney returne xzy d to mainstream films in the mid- 2 ixzy 000s with Gothika, for which producer Jo ixzy el Silver ixzy withheld 40 p xzy ercent of his salary until after production wrapped as insur xzy ance against his addictive behavior. S ixzy imilar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then.[57] .